Parent of a teen? It can be tricky to find a place for your young teens in the summer time. Check your local YMCA chapter as many are offering free summer YMCA membership for teens. Some are for specific grades, like entering 7th or 8th … [Read the rest]
Planet Fitness is running the High School Summer Pass again in 2025, which is a free gym membership for teens ages 14-19 to work out at any of its more than 2,500+ locations throughout the US and Canada. Valid from Saturday, June 1 through Saturday, … [Read the rest]
Updated May 2025. Merrill Edge is the self-directed brokerage arm formed after Bank of America and Merrill Lynch merged together. They are currently offering an increased cash bonus of up to $1,000 for moving "new money" or assets over to them from … [Read the rest]
New limited-time offer. The Bank of America Unlimited Cash Rewards Card is the most simple, straightforward, no-annual-fee credit card in the Bank of America line-up. If you are a Preferred Rewards client, you can increase the cash back earned by … [Read the rest]
New limited-time offer. The Bank of America Customized Cash Rewards Credit Card is the "3-2-1" cash back rewards credit card in the Bank of America line-up. If you are a Preferred Rewards client, you can increase the cash back earned by 25% to 75%. … [Read the rest]
I'm not sure how many of you follow Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway closely, but here are a couple of significant updates as a follow-up to the 2025 Annual Shareholder Meeting where he announced that he was stepping down as CEO at the end of … [Read the rest]
College savings plans that are looking to grow assets tend to have promotions on May 29th, aka "529 Day". I started gathering up these bonuses from various plans even before having kids, and eventually consolidated them into one single plan. The … [Read the rest]
Brokerage app Webull is running a "7 Years of Webull" anniversary promo (full terms) that includes some decent bonuses that are stackable. This offer is targeted at selected existing customers who have a funded account as of 5/20/25. Check your app … [Read the rest]
I've written a little about about Multi-year guaranteed annuity (MYGA) fixed deferred annuities in the past, and I actually bought one as one of my "$10,000 Experiments" way back in 2015. I bought the MYGA with the highest available interest rate … [Read the rest]
When you sell your shares of stocks/ETFs/mutual funds in a taxable brokerage account, your broker will also record the specific shares and the original value at purchase (cost basis) at which you bought them. Even if you don't expect to sell your … [Read the rest]
For those that are newer members of the US Bank checking/savings/credit card/brokerage ecosystem, most likely for the up to 4% cash back rewards from their Smartly credit card (current terms for new applicants are poor, but the grandfathered terms … [Read the rest]
Here's my monthly survey of the best interest rates on cash as of May 2025, roughly sorted from shortest to longest maturities. Banks love taking advantage of our idle cash, and you can often earning more money while keeping the same level of safety … [Read the rest]
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